UPDATE - Call for entry to Pacific International Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti

Updated coverage on New Zealand's Venice Biennale representation

The Asian Festival of First Films is the world's premiere Film and Documentary Festival for first time filmmakers of Asia - Pacific origin.

Two New Zealand short films screened in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival this year, with The Six Dollar Fifty Man, directed by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, being awarded a Special Distinction.

Auckland video artist Janet Lilo is the latest New Zealander chosen to be a resident artist in Sapporo, Japan, under the JENESYS residency programme.
In her first video blog, she talks about dust masks, the playground, the S-Air programme, her flat & introduces the other artists she is working with.

You can check out her video blog here.

The 2009 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was recently featured in the New Yorker Magazine. Reporter Judith Thurman was welcomed to New Zealand and the Festival.

Here is a link to the article she wrote, describing the experience.

The World Music Expo 09 (WOMEX)and the 2009 Australasian World Music Expo (AWME) are the two major world music expos currently targeted by Creative New Zealand under our International Strategy.

The Pacific Arts Committee of Creative New Zealand, in partnership with The National University of Samoa, is calling for applications from artists to undertake a residency at The National University of Samoa in Apia, Samoa.

The 9th Australian Performing Arts Market APAM will be held in Adelaide 22-26 February 2010 to coincide with the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and the Adelaide Fringe.
Creative New Zealand is delighted to announce that in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, we will be supporting a co-ordinated New Zealand presence.

An exhibition at the Galerie Impaire in Paris, featuring the work of thirteen New Zealand artists and photographers, is causing a stir among the city’s "art brut" (self-taught art/outsider art) community.

'Lars og Peter', a short film funded under the old Screen Innovation Production Fund, has been accepted into the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival.

Amateur photographers are invited to submit up to three photos in the Pacific Island Heritage in Focus international photo contest. Entries will be formally displayed and shots that best represent the theme will be published in a Pacific Island Heritage 2010 Calendar. The contest is part of the Pacific Island Archaeology in the 21st Century: Relevance and Engagement conference to be held in Palau from July 1-3, 2009.

NZ entries in the 2009 Venice Biennale are coming back to New Zealand next year to be exhibited at Te Papa.

Visual artist Sara Hughes, the recipient of the 2008/09 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, opened her exhibition Feedback Runaway at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien.

They’re coming from Karachi, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Edinburgh, Wellington, Baltimore, Washington, London, Levin, Melbourne, Timaru and just up the road: the 2009 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is set to go off with a global bang from 13 to 17 May.

Renowned story teller and Encounter Ritual Expert Joe Harawira, has been
invited to perform at the American Natural History Museum in New York.

The 7th Pacific International Documentary Film Festival is calling for entries to its 2010 edition.

The Hamburg Animation Awards is inviting animators from New Zealand to enter their work for the 6th Hamburg Animation Awards to be held on 25 June 2009.

The New Zealand String Quartet is in Washington, DC this week for a performance in the legendary Library of Congress series on Friday.

Visual artist Sara Hughes, the recipient of the 2008/09 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, has an exhibition opening at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien on Thursday 26th of March 2009.

Judy Millar, one of the two New Zealand artists exhibiting at the prestigious 53rd Venice Biennale, has secured a new venue at La Maddalena church.

New Zealand’s Mo Zhi Hong takes Best First Book Prize for South East Asia and the South Pacific in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009

If you are a post-secondary Mäori student studying in the arts then Te Waka Toi want to hear from you by the end of March 2009

Te Uhi a Mataora – Toi Maori Aotearoa, a collective of the country’s top Maori Ta Moko Artists, to display their talent and skills at this years WOMAD festival

Artstation’s exhibition Language People will share stories from the Pacific culture as part of Celebrate Pasifika this month. The mixed media exhibition explores the nature of verbal and visual language through painting, video installation and cartooning.

Le Folauga: the past coming forward is the first contemporary Pacific art exhibition from Aotearoa/New Zealand to be shown in a major fine arts museum in Asia. Opening at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan on 13 December 2008, the exhibition will run through until 5 April 2009

New Zealand-based Pacific writers wishing to work on a project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history are invited to apply to the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency. The residency will run for three months from mid August 2009 at the Centre for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawaii

A residency opportunity of up to two months for young professionals in artistic/creative fields including video, film, visual art or computer music is being offered as part of the JENESYS Programme, administered by the Japan Foundation in partnership with the Asia New Zealand Foundation.

Change of venue for Judy Millar's Exhibition at the Venice Biennale

Two new potential venues are being explored for New Zealand artist Judy Millar's exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Performance works from Pacific artists will bring a vibrant vibe to the Galatos stage this Friday, for the opening night of the Auckland Fringe Festival

The shortlists for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and Best First Book were announced on the 18 February in London. Three New Zealand writers are amongst those shortlisted

Jeffry Feeger has been announced as the successful recipient of the inaugural Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust and Pacific Cooperation Foundation Artist Residency 2009

Legendary choreographer and soloist Susanne Linke is performing in the Auckland Festival in March. The Goethe Institut, Auckland Festival, DANZ and TAPAC are providing two more opportunities with her in Auckland.
 

Encouraging creativity, skill and innovation in contemporary glass.

Visit www.ranamok.com or call 8248 1267 for entry forms and further information.

They’re coming from Karachi, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Edinburgh, Wellington, Baltimore, Washington, London, Levin, Melbourne, Timaru and just up the road: the 2009 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is set to go off with a global bang from 13 to 17 May 2009

New Zealand venues chosen for prestigious Venice Biennale

Creative New Zealand has secured venues for the New Zealand exhibitions at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Painter Judy Millar’s large scale installation will herald the re-opening after 30 years of the regal Sant’ Antonin church and sculptor Francis Upritchard’s will be housed in the exquisite Fondazione Claudio Buziol on one of the main walking routes from Venice’s busy train station. 

New Zealand choreographer, Raewyn Hill, will premiere a new contemporary dance work in the inaugural Asia Pacific Dance Platform, as a part of the 37th Hong Kong Arts Festival in February 2009.

San Francisco residents who visited the Toi Māori exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco this past weekend (10 - 12 October) had not forgotten the iconic image of the Māori waka sailing under Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in 2005 with Māori Art Meets America.

Te Uhi Tā Moko Artists to attend the 4th International Tattoo Convention in London

Te Uhi a Mataora, a collective of Tā Moko Artists from Toi Māori, headed by renowned artist's Derek Lardelli and Mark Kopua, are sending two members of his art form team to attend the 4th International Tattoo Convention in London. This will be held on the 26-28 September 2008.

New Zealand artist Sara Hughes is the recipient of the 2008/09 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The biennial 12-month residency provides an opportunity for visual artists to work on their approved project, gain professional development, build international networks and generally increase awareness of New Zealand visual arts.

Creative New Zealand, in association with NZMC (New Zealand Music Commission), is supporting a presence at the World Music Expo in Seville, Spain in 2008.

Two New Zealand artists - Judy Millar from Auckland and Francis Upritchard from Christchurch - will represent New Zealand in a six month exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale - widely recognised as the most significant event on the international visual arts calendar.

Creative New Zealand has selected a combination of accomplished and emerging artists from within the Māori and New Zealand based Pacific communities to attend the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in Pago Pago, American Samoa in July 2008.

Rotorua artist, June Grant (Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tuhourangi, Ngati Whaio) has been selected to undertake a two and a half month artist's residency at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.

Creative New Zealand is reminding artists and curators that they have just over one week to prepare and send in their expressions of interest for the Venice Biennale, 2009.